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BEPPLE – Reducing downtown parking spaces could create ‘sticky streets’

June 20, 2018 // 6 Comments

THE CITY OF KAMLOOPS is revising its 2005 City Centre Plan. Their goal is to create a plan that guides land use for the next 20 years in the centre of the city. The plan [Continue]

BEPPLE – Low-income Kamloops seniors deserve more

June 13, 2018 // 5 Comments

THIS WEEK, SPARC BC and the United Way of the Lower Mainland released BC Seniors’ Poverty Report Card. It’s not good news, with 8.8 per cent of B.C.’s seniors living [Continue]

BEPPLE – TRU must come to the table to relieve pressure on city’s housing stock

June 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

I LIVE NEAR a bottle depot, so it is not unusual for me to see someone with all their possessions pushing a shopping cart down my street. But Kamloops is small enough, that [Continue]

BEPPLE – Could China be in the market for a Canadian oil pipeline?

May 30, 2018 // 1 Comment

WOW. I NEVER thought I’d own piece of a pipeline. But now, like all Canadians, I may soon be part owner of the Canadian portion of the expanded Kinder Morgan pipeline. [Continue]

BEPPLE – A question for the women of Kamloops: Are you ready to run?

May 23, 2018 // 1 Comment

HERE IN KAMLOOPS, as in many places, the majority of candidates in federal, provincial and municipal elections have always been men. For many reasons, more men are able to [Continue]

BEPPLE – Time Milobar took his job as environment critic more seriously

May 16, 2018 // 5 Comments

NORTH THOMPSON MLA and Opposition Environment Critic Peter Milobar made me smile this week with his proposal that Greater Victoria MLAs not receive a per diem meal allowance [Continue]